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Comment on Levees.org supports LA Rep Hilferty’s HB 1240 by Terilyn Frazier

Terilyn Frazier — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:37:42 +0000

I am a New Orleans East resident and property owner who frequently travel the Hayne Blvd corridor. OLDPD is not visible nor do they prioritize schedule or perform “police” coverage to our area. The Superintendent is their private police force.
My taxes entitle me to the same security and personalized attention that affluent Lakeshore, Lake Vista, etc Subdivisions receive.

Comment on Katrina at 20 Years Calendar of Events by S. Rosenthal

S. Rosenthal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:08:22 +0000

In reply to Robert Burnette.

Yes, we do! please contact me at sandy@levees.org

Comment on Katrina at 20 Years Calendar of Events by Robert Burnette

Robert Burnette — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:50:21 +0000

Hello,

I have a school group coming May 13th 2027. There will be 60 people. Do you do group tours?

Comment on Fox Weather to feature Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum in documentary by Cindy Cripps

Cindy Cripps — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:57:38 +0000

I guess I will miss this. They were talking about Hurricane Andrew and showed its track over “The Gulf of America.” I refuse to watch that streaming service.

Comment on Fox Weather to feature Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum in documentary by Liz Reed

Liz Reed — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:13:19 +0000

Great work

Comment on Katrina at 20 Years Calendar of Events by ArchieBup

ArchieBup — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:09:02 +0000

Your source for information on levee and flood protection nationwide.

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Comment on Mango Publishers announces Second Edition of Words Whispered in Water by Kenneth Ragas

Kenneth Ragas — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:55:06 +0000

Iam a native and landowner from south Plaquemines Parish. That area was wiped out for hurricanes Betsy, Camille and Katrina. the main reason is that the EastBank river levee was not repaired after hurricane Camille. I served as storm surge protection for communities on the populated west bank. The USACE is allowing the east bank to erode and crevasse in many areas. The land there is privately owned and being allowed to contribute to “land loss” and the owners have not been contacted by the USACE. Does the USACE have the power to do that. The CPRA has refused to support any storm surge protection projects which were submitted for inclusion in the 2023 master plan. They claim that the river is building land at the crevasse outfall bays. That new land is old land that belong to property owners and was allowed to erode and be washed away. This is easily determined by a simple calculation based on the change of depth, width and length parameters. Thousands of cubic yards of private property have been lost. The fresh water has killed all the EastBank oyster reefs. The state has not confronted the USACE with that issue. The crevasses are causing the saltwater wedge problem harming the communities and families. Hot water heaters are being changed. Providing storm surge protection with a repaired east bank levee solves several issues. The 3-billion-dollar Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion will not produce nay land in the first 20 years of operation. The USACE permitted it. The hurricanes that came into the gulf this season is a hint to our future. Build levees first with the available funds and stop using computer models that cannot produce accurate results. What is their source of input. Is AI? Artificial!!! not factual. The Delft3D model used to determine the diversion results did not build and land above for sea level for the first 20 years of operation. That 3 billion dollars could build many higher levees and other elevated structures that the world is now planning to protect their countries from sea level rise. Are we the levee experts? Claims of SCIENCE by some are not factual. I am reorganizing a group Called Common Ground that I started when the USACE CWPPRA was formed. I am trying to have a voice for the people of Plaquemines Parish. My family came from Spain to organize the control of the mouth of the Mississippi river in 1768. That was 8 generation ago. I do not have a web site. I am 81 years old and trying to fight the powerful groups like the Mississippi River Delta group from Nicholls college, the RorR group, CRCL, the Pontchartrain group, EDF, Audubon Society and all the others that are in control of our future. I can send you a before and after photo of my home in Buras for Katrina. My grandmother’s home and my parents’ home. The storm surge from Breton Sound caused all that. I had to move upriver but rent my property for income in Buras. So, people are still there that need protection. We don’t need any diversions.
The USACE are protected by eminent domain and an act from the 1920s. We don’t have money to sue them.

Comment on Mango Publishers announces Second Edition of Words Whispered in Water by Jeff Waller

Jeff Waller — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:23:49 +0000

After reading just the foreword and sample chapters, I can see that the situation in New Orleans was just as I envisioned it. I worked with Dr. Berkley Traughber for nine years during the 1980s. He was the Jefferson Parish Drainage Department’s consulting engineer. Together, we designed and built the Harvey Pumping Station on the Harvey Canal. Every sheet pile in our project was driven to “refusal”. That is the term used to describe when a piling can be driven no deeper usually due to reaching another geological layer such as the Pleistocene, the firmer layer which underlays New Orleans. I was the Resident Project Rep on the pumping station project when Hurricane Juan caused levee breeches on the west bank of the river. I spent three days there helping to direct the placement of massive concrete blocks in the breech.

I had heard rumors about the engineering firm that designed the 17th Street Canal levee system. Traughber told me right then that the sheet piles in that levee were half as long as they needed to be. He said he warned people that the sheet pile wall would simply lay over when the high water came. They never listened.

When he decided circa 2000 to cease acting as their consultant, Traughber was asked what the parish would do without him. He said, “You’re going to drown!” Sadly, it was a prophesy that was destined to come true. I guess he’d had enough of working with “jackleg” engineers. I’m getting ready to order a copy of the paperback and can’t wait to read it. I can tell already that it is going to five stars. Incidentally, I’m still waiting for the congressional inquiry of the fiasco of 2005.

Comment on The Corps of Engineers’s Harassment of Dr. Robert Bea by S. Rosenthal

S. Rosenthal — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:05:57 +0000

In reply to David Woodward.

Thank you for reaching out. While some residents of the Lower Ninth Ward insist that they heard the sound of dynamite during the early morning of August 29, 2005, there is no evidence that explosives were used. Investigative studies conclude that the northeast breach occurred because sheet pilings were too short, and the southeast breach occurred due to overtopping. For a full description, we suggest this link: https://levees.org/levee-exhibition-full-length-version/

Comment on The Corps of Engineers’s Harassment of Dr. Robert Bea by David Woodward

David Woodward — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:45:35 +0000

It is now common knowledge among New Orleans residents that the levees were intentionally blown during hurricane Katrina to inundate the 9th ward and thereby protect other areas. Has further evidence emerged to support this broadly held belief?